Posted on 03/01/2023 4:00:47 PM PST by DallasBiff
He suffered cat-astrophic injuries.
A UK man miraculously survived after sustaining a broken neck, fractured spine, smashed ribs, blood in his lungs and other “car crash”-evoking injuries from — wait for it — tripping over his cat.
“I can’t remember much, just falling fast — it was quick and it was over within seconds, then I was at the bottom,” victim Chris Rowley, 59, told the Mirror.
The freak “Apocalypse Meow” accident reportedly occurred on the evening of Oct. 23 while the Leicestershire-based professional musician was home alone with his hairless Egyptian sphinx kitten, Eric Morecambe.
Disaster struck after the wrinkly kitty, apparently feeling playful, dove out and latched onto one of its owner’s legs while he was coming down the stairs.
“It took a bit of a chunk out my leg then I lost my footing,” described Rowley, who reportedly tumbled down 14 steps before arriving at the bottom, where he lay unable to move when his feline put the “hell” in Hello Kitty
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“The cat didn’t, the stairs did.”
That’s what the cat wants you to believe.
Oh, gross. You can see its brain.
God bless you.
Pretty ugly, yeah. I like pretty cats.
My cat wouldn’t, but you never know. They don’t position themselves at the top of the stairs for saintly reasons.
“Yes, it is strange that anyone should dislike cats. But cats themselves are the worst offenders in this respect. They very seldom seem to like one another.”
~ C. S. Lewis
We used to have a cat named “Peeve” He was our pet peeve.
That’s the one.
A more appropriate name would be "Tommy Udo".
Its tail looks like a rat tail...!
Shoot the cat in case heh.
>> I love cats, had them all my life, but yes, they are capable of doing this.
We love ours too. Yes, cats are capable of great mischief & mayhem. But hey, some of us are just thrill seekers hooked on the adrenaline rush that comes from keeping dangerous animals. :-)
You gotta respect the cat, after all, they are just miniature lions and tigers. :-)
In our commune we had several cats, one named window pane, another orange sunshine, a purple haze, one named 25, I don’t remember much about them, but they could talk.
Be careful, you know how cats love to knock things off of things. ;-)
Are all your pets named Eric?
Our female cat Coco likes to lay on the steps. She won’t attack us as we go upstairs or come downstairs-she’ll just lay there and make us step over her on the way up or down. It’s harder for my wife because she has a bad knee.
If we get past Coco, our male cat Charlie is waiting at the top of the stairs.
He’s a big guy, and stretches allllll the way across the top of the stairs.
One of these days….
There’s nothing so odd about that, Kemal Ataturk had an entire menagerie called ‘Abdul’!
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